Brauron (/ˈbrɔːrɒn/; Ancient Greek: Βραυρών) was one of the twelve cities of ancient Attica, but never mentioned as a deme, though it continued to exist...
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One of the most famous worshiping sites for Artemis was in Attica at Brauron. Artemis is said to have presided over all the biological transitions of...
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where prehistoric remains were found are Marathon, Rafina, Nea Makri, Brauron, Thorikos, Agios Kosmas, Elefsina, Menidi, Markopoulo, Spata, Aphidnae...
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The Brauron Archaeological Museum is a museum in Markopoulo Mesogeias, Greece. Much of the collection is derived from excavations in the Sanctuary of...
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(tauros:bull) and with the myth of Iphigenia at Brauron. Orestes brought the image of the goddess from Tauris, to Brauron Sparta or Aricia. Artemis is often depicted...
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of Artemis, Brauron. Contemporary wraps such as Ampechonon, Epiblēma are also included in the inventories at Delos (Leto, Hera), Brauron, Tanagra and...
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Fragmentary relief, before mid-2nd century AD, depicting the recall of Philoctetes (Archeological Museum of Brauron)...
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Leto. Apollo holding his bow, Leto and Tityos. Leto seated, relief from Brauron. Ancient Greece portal Myths portal Religion portal Alcmene Maia Latona...
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Artemis. The Temple of Artemis Brauron was among the most important sacred sites in the ancient times. Vravrona (or Brauron), about 20 km from Athens, was...
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protector of women in pregnancy and childbirth, had her main sanctuary at Brauron, a demos on the east coast of Attica. The sanctuary on the Acropolis was...
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traffic in 1957. Agía Triáda (2021 census pop. 285) Vravróna, ancient Brauron (pop. 268) - located in the northeast by the Aegean Sea Chamoliá (pop....
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been situated south or east of Hymettus, perhaps in the neighbourhood of Brauron, where Ludwig Ross found an inscription containing the name of this deme...
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Delphi Metopes made from marble slotted into the frieze of the Stoa at Brauron Section of metope frieze from a temple near Paestum, c. 510 BC Metopes...
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have been near Brauron, since it is said to have derived its name from Philaeus, the son of the Telamonian Ajax, who dwelt in Brauron. Philaïdae was the...
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List of stoae (section Brauron)
Stoas, in the context of ancient Greek architecture, are covered walkways or porticos, commonly for public usage. The following is a list of Greek and...
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archaic cult of Artemis in bear form survived into Classical times at Brauron, where young Athenian girls passed an initiation rite as arktoi "she bears"...
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ancient Attica, situated on its eastern coast between Brauron and Araphen, and was the harbour of Brauron, whence persons crossed over to Marmarium in Euboea...
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Στείρια) was a deme of ancient Attica on the east coast, between Prasiae and Brauron, which belonged to the phyle of Pandionis. Stiris in Phocis is said to...
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his restoration work on the Acropolis of Athens, in the ancient city of Brauron and on the monastery of Hosios Loukas, as well as his many books and scientific...
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Brauroneion), the goddess represented as a bear and worshipped in the deme of Brauron. According to Pausanias, a wooden statue or xoanon of the goddess and a...
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at the back of the cella. As is the case at the temples of Artemis at Brauron and Aulis (among others), many temples of Artemis have such back rooms...
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near-sacrifice. Athena sends Iphigenia to the sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron where she is to be the priestess until she dies. According to the Spartans...
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but subsequently a deme of ancient Attica. It lay between Oropus and Brauron, and was the last demus in the north-eastern district of Attica. The site...
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Leocrates 102. The Iliad was also recited at the festival of the Brauronia, at Brauron in Attica (Hesychius s.v. Brauronia). Hipparchus 228b8. This, however,...
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southern Albania abandoned Butrint, Bouthrotios (Βουθρώτιος), Buthrotum Brauron Attica, Greece abandoned Vravrona, Vravronas Byblos Lebanon Byblos Byblos...
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was also used for a special wicker basket used at the cult of Artemis at Brauron in Attica. Known as 'Castor and Pollux' in Latin; Homeric Hymn 33 describes...
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Temple of Artemis Amarynthia in Amarynthos in Euboea Temple of Artemis at Brauron, Attica Temple of Artemis in Corfu Temple of Artemis in Jerash Brauroneion...
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addresses Iphigenia, telling her to be priestess at the sacred terraces of Brauron, and she tells Orestes that she is saving him again. Thoas heeds Athena's...
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people living near the Black Sea in the Crimean peninsula, see the article Brauron; that connection underlies the Iphigenia in Aulis of Euripides Two sites...
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typical chitons and himatia that Athenian women dedicated to Artemis at Brauron were six kandyes, mostly described as being patterned. One of these was...
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